Question

What did Liberal Nationalism Stand for?
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Answer 1

Answer:

The Liberal Nationalism which is also perceived as the civic nationalism is a sort of patriotism that usually opposed to ethnic/cultural patriotism. This is a form of nationalism that promotes the establishment of national citizenship based on mutual goals and ideas as opposed to a general ethnicity, language, or faith. The Liberal Nationalists often maintain the importance of national identity by assuming that people need national integrity in order to lead essential, independent lives.

Answer 2

The answer in simple points is as follows:

• The term ‘liberalism’ derives from the Latin root liber, meaning free.

• For the new middle classes, liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and  equality of all before the law.

• Politically, it emphasized the concept of government by consent. Since the  French Revolution, liberalism had stood for the end of autocracy and clerical  privileges, a constitution and representative government through parliament.

• In the economic sphere, liberalism stood for the freedom of markets and the  abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.